At Reciplate, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected by Reciplate and how we use it.
Information we collect
We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. This information allows us to provide you with a customized and efficient experience. We collect the following types of information from our users:
Information You Provide To Us
1) We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our features.
2) Registration: Upon creating a Reciplate account, we require certain personal information in order to provide our services to you.
3) User Profile: To allow you to express yourself beyond just the information collected during registration, we enable you to provide additional information, such as your name, email address, bio, website URL, and display photo. As indicated below, in the section titled "Sharing Your Information", you can control how your information is displayed and used.
4) You have the right to edit, update, access, or transfer your personal information, or to delete your personal information if you are terminating your registration with Reciplate.
Automatic Information
1) We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Reciplate and its authorized agents automatically receive and record certain "traffic data" on their server logs from your browser and apps including your IP address, Reciplate cookie information, and the page you requested. Reciplate uses this traffic data to help diagnose problems with its servers, analyze trends, and administer the website. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
2) In addition to the "traffic data", Reciplate and its authorized agents may collect information about the device you're using to access Reciplate, its operating system, unique device identifier, device settings such as language, and crash data. Which data is specifically collected depends on the type of device and/or system running on that device. This data is again used to help us diagnose problems with the site and/or mobile apps and analyze trends. This does not involve collecting any of your personal information.
3) Reciplate may collect and use information regarding the geographic location of your devices. If the location data contains your personal information, then Reciplate will treat this location data in accordance with this Policy.
Communications
Email and push notifications: Reciplate is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the "Sharing Your Information" section below. Reciplate may send out emails with related news, products, offers, surveys, or promotions. You may also receive emails and/or push notifications from Reciplate, which inform you of actions (e.g. “new follows”) that have been performed on the site. We send these notifications to you based on receiving your consent. However, please note that in all cases you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us unless you terminate your registration.
Cookies
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. Reciplate cookies do not collect personal information.
Reciplate utilizes third-party services to help analyze how our site is used. These services also use cookies to collect information about visitors to our site (including IP addresses) in an anonymous form that does not include personal information.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.
Analytics
Reciplate uses analytics services to help analyze and understand how our site and mobile applications are used, so that we can make Reciplate products more interesting to you. These tools capture data about how individual users are using our site and mobile applications. This includes event logs, device type, and device configuration settings such as language, crash data, and other data but never personal information. These third-party services treat the analytics data in accordance with this privacy policy and Reciplate does not disclose your personal information to any third parties through our use of these services.
Sharing Your Information
Because Reciplate enables people to discover and share information with one another, information about the people who use Reciplate is an integral part of the Reciplate experience. Rest assured that we will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below:
Reciplate Personnel: Reciplate personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of Reciplate business.
Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Reciplate, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.
Protection of Reciplate and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Reciplate, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
User Profile information: Information collected during registration and subsequent visits, such as your full name and location, may be displayed to other Reciplate users in your User Profile. The User Profile is the area on Reciplate where we allow you to tell other Reciplate users about yourself. You may control what personal information is displayed in your User Profile by visiting the Settings section of your User Profile.
Followers' Activity: Much like other online social networks, Reciplate allows non-followers to browse your followers’ activity.
Service Providers: Reciplate may share user information as well as information from tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers, and location data, with third-parties that help Reciplate provide services to you (“Service Providers”). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary for Reciplate to provide our services. Reciplate requires Services Providers to protect your data in a manner consistent with this Policy and to limit the use of such information to the performance of services for Reciplate. Reciplate may also remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with Service Providers, including combining your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you.
With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.
Ways to Control Display and Use of Your Information
As stated previously, you can always opt not to disclose information, but then you may be unable to use certain features on our website.
By visiting your User Profile, you can correct, amend, add, or delete personal information on our website.
If you do not wish to receive email from us, please visit your settings and/or follow the instructions contained in the unwanted email message.
However, please note that you will continue to receive all system emails (e.g. those regarding forgotten user passwords) and legal notices (e.g. updates to our policies) from us unless you terminate your registration with Reciplate.
As explained earlier, the "help" portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. Please note, however, that if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of some of our attractive features.
Children Under 18 Years of Age
You must be 14 years and older to register to use the Reciplate website. As a result, Reciplate does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that Reciplate has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 14 and 18 ask and receive permission from a legal guardian before using Reciplate or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Reciplate may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Reciplate website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
Revised: August 28, 2020